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Hello, I spent many happy childhood hours helping my mother to make proggy and cliquie mats. There is a difference between the two kinds: with proggy mats the clippings were cut quite short and pushed through the canvas with a progger; with cliquie (not sure of the spelling) mats longer clippings were placed under the canvas and pulled through, a bit at a time, with a clique (hook). The picture I've posted is of a very small proggy mat which used to belong to my Aunty Freda. It now resides under my computer desk. I've got other pictures to put up at a later time.

Picture's fine, opens up 800 pixels wide. Rare survivor! Apparently (from googling) Beamish museum have a demonstration of this proggy mat making.
I recall the other names too - clippy or clicky mats or something. They can be quite artistic, 'tapestry' like works of art.

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This is my mother's clique, cleek - whatever. It was pushed through the canvas and a part of a large clipping was pulled through to make a loop. Then a half inch or so farther away the process was repeated; and so on until the clipping was all used. After that a new clipping was employed.

A 'clique' must be a synonym or colloqualism for a hook of some derivation, as a young lad I used to 'clique' for lobsters and crabs on the rocks between Amble and Hauxley when the tide was very low. I had a longish pole, 4' maybe, with a small steel shepherds cook type of hook on the end to scrape under rocks and submerged rock pool shelves in the sandstone. Limited success but many hours of fun all the same!